Log in to the SCP management platform. Go to Resource Center to select the resource pool, click Storage > External Storage >External Storage List you can get the following information:
| Name |
The name of the local storage |
| Status |
Local storage status (normal or unnormal) |
| Description |
The description of this storage |
| Storage Type |
The resource pool the local storage belongs to |
| Total |
Local storage capacity |
| Available |
Local storage available capacity |
| Used |
Local storage capacity has been used |
| Peak Read Speed |
Local storage peak read speed |
| Peak Write Speed |
Local storage peak write speed |
| Path Status |
The storage path status from HCI to the storage endpoint. |
| Connected Nodes |
The nodes connected to this storage. |
| VMs |
VMs locate on local storage |
| Running VMs |
VMs has been powered on |
| Storage Tag |
Local storage tag |
| Operation |
Edit: can edit the storage’s name and description |
| Format: use for format the storage |
| …: data cleanup/edit storage tag/remove storage. |
In the Operation section for iSCSI and FC you can do the following things:
Edit: Can edit the storage’s name, description and the node connect to storage, adjust the space reclamation.
Expand: Expand capacity after the storage server expands the capacity.
: LUN check, format, cleanup, path health settings, edit storage tag and remove the storage.
For NFS you can do the following things:
Edit: Can edit the storage’s name, description and the node connect to storage.
Cleanup: Select any of the following residual files left over from removed virtual machines and devices, live migration, disk expansion and template import failure, and click Start to safely free space.
Remove: The datastore will be removed from the external storage list.
By clicking the local storage’s name you will enter a new page, in this page beside the above information you can the storage IOPS, IO speed and IO latency information.
In the Nodes and Paths section you can get the Mount Status, status, Adapter status, Node name, path policy, paths (unavailable/total), node’s IP, IO reads, IO writes, IO speed, IO write speed, directory and can do the path scan (NFS cannot) or edit multipathing policy.